Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, has advocated a single term of six years for presidents and governors as against the current double term of four years each.
He noted that a single term of five or six years will be enough for any government to focus and serve the people, and deliver on its mandate.
He called for a constitutional amendment to effect this.
“I was just looking at the trajectory for me in government. I have spent six years already, and due to no fault of anybody, we lost the year 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“We lost almost one year, campaigning all over the place for the second tenure. Now, people have started distracting us from what we want to do next and all of that. So, I feel that, effectively, the time we can say we are very serious with governance is just about five out of the eight years.
“That is why I feel that if you remove all these distractions, a single tenure of five or six years is actually enough to focus and do the work that we are trying to do in eight years,” he said when Muslim faithful, including clerics, traditional rulers and political office holders, paid a visit to his Ikolaba, Ibadan residence, shortly after the Eid-el-Kabir prayers, held at the Eid Ground, Agodi, Ibadan, on Friday.
He said though his proposal was a constitutional issue, it was a model that should work for the country.
